AS WE GET READY FOR MORE WINTER WEATHER, 40/29 HAS LEARNED SOME ROAD DEPARTMENTS ARE RUNNING LOW ON SALT AND SAND. 40/29'S DARBY BYBEE FOUND OUT WHY. HE'S LIVE IN ROGERS. I'M STANDING RIGHT ALONG WALNUT STREET. YOU CAN SEE HOW CLEAR OF ICE AND SNOW IT IS. THIS LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. BUT, ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS TURN THE CAMERA ABOUT 90 DEGREES AND YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW BAD IT GETS ON THE SIDE STREETS. THE ICE IS JUST CAKED ON THERE. AND IF YOU THINK THERE'S MUCH CHANCE OF THIS GETTING PLOWED AWAY, THINK AGAIN. (Greg Hines, Rogers Mayor) "You could plow it, but, if you did you'd take your road up." THAT'S THE MAYOR OF ROGERS, GREG HINES. HE SAYS HIS ROADS DEPARTMENT DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO PRETREAT THE ROADS BEFORE THE FIRST ROUND OF WINTER WEATHER SUNDAY. BUT, WITH THE ICE STORM THAT MOVED IN RIGHT BEHIND, THE WEATHER PROVED TOO MUCH FOR THEIR LIMITED RESOURCES. "We have 400 linear miles of streets in the city of Rogers and roughly 11 to 12 pieces of apparatus, depending it their all working, to dispatch out on these streets." MAYOR HINES IS FIGHTING BACK. THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR EVER THAT ROGERS IS EMPLOYING NON-CITY EMPLOYEES TO HELP PLOW THE STREETS. WHAT HE SAYS HE CAN NOT DO, HOWEVER, IS VOTE TO SPEND VAST SUMS OF MONEY TO BUY NEW EQUIPMENT AND HIRE NEW EMPLOYEES. "One year with no events, another year with one event, and then this year with 4 or 5 events. It's hard to make the call to spend millions, literally millions upon millions of dollars for equipment that normally would just sit." RIGHT NOW SUPPLIES ARE RUNNING LOW. "Do you think, you're going to have enough money to get thru the rest of the winter?" "We have the money to get thru the rest of the winter, with respect to material. It's whether or not you can get it." AND IT'S A PROBLEM WE'RE HEARING FROM CITY OFFICIALS ALL ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND THE RIVER VALLEY. THE ROGERS STREETS DEPARTMENT TOLD US TODAY ONE OF THE MATERIALS THEY'RE GOING TO NEED MORE OF VERY SOON IS MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE. BUT, WITH THE ENTIRE MIDWEST IN SEARCH OF THAT SAME MATERIAL, THEY'RE NOT SURE IF IT WILL MAKE IT HERE BEFORE THEY COMPLETELY RUN OUT. LIVE IN ROGERS, DARBY BYBEE, 40/29 NEWS. THE MAYOR TOLD 40/29 TODAY WHILE THE GRADERS CONTRACTED WITH THE CITY HAVE HELPED, THEY ARE EXPENSIVE, CHARGING BETWEEN 180 AND 260 DOLLARS AN HOUR.